All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Award winners

Bongani Fuzile of Daily Dispatch was named the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalist of the Year at a glittering function on Thursday evening, 13 September, at the Johannesburg World Trade Centre (known as The Venue Greenpark).

Former Muslim News editor and renowned writer and poet James Matthews was named the Allan Kirkland Soga Lifetime Achiever Award winner while The Citizen photographer, Jacques Nelles, won the Upcoming/Rising Star category for his Picture of Parachute “The moon walk”.

All the winners received R15,000, a trophy and a certiﬁcate while all finalists received certiﬁcates. Commendation Certiﬁcates are awarded at the judges’ discretion.

Newspaper production, advertising, and graphics award winners

Also awarded on the night were the Frewin, McCall and, Joel Mervis Awards. These recognise newspaper excellence in advertising, printing and production, layout and typography as well as the balanced use of pictures and graphics.

The Frewin Award, which recognises urban daily newspapers with a circulation above 40 000, went to Die Burger with Beeld the runner-up. A Commended went to the Daily Sun.

Mail and Guardian was awarded the McCall Award,which honours urban daily newspapers with a circulation of 40 000 or less. The Witness was the runner-up and Pretoria News took a Commended.

The Joel Mervis Award recognises urban weekly newspapers irrespective of their circulation and a joint award went to Rapport and City Press. Runner-up is Naweek Beeld with Sunday Sun taking a Commended.